This is a full version of a
Jacks
or Bettervideo poker strategy
chart. Like most video poker strategy charts, it's a list of
potential
hands
in order of return. You start at the top and go down until you find a
hand that matches the hand you've been dealt, then you keep the cards
indicated. Since the hands are in order of
expected return, once you get to a hand, you just stop; you do not
continue to go through the list of hands.
Royal flush
Straight flush
Four of a kind
Four cards to a royal flush
Full house
Flush
Three of a kind
Straight
Four cards to a straight flush
Two pair
Pair of jack or better
Three cards to a royal flush
Four cards to a flush
10-J-Q-K, unsuited
Pair of 10's or lower
9-10-J-Q, unsuited
8-9-10-J, unsuited
9-J-Q, suited
9-10-Q, suited
Four cards to a straight, open-ended
Three cards to a straight flush with two gaps & two high
cards
Three cards to a straight flush with one gap & one high
card
Three cards to a straight flush, open-ended, & no high
cards
J-Q-K-A, unsuited
Two cards to a royal flush (two suited high cards)
Four cards to a straight with one gap & three high cards
Three cards to a straight flush with two gaps and one
high card
Three cards to a straight flush with two gaps and no
high card
J-Q-K, unsuited
Two unsuited high cards (throw away the ace if you have
three)
Two cards to a royal flush with a 10 and no ace
One high card
Three cards to a straight flush, with two gaps and no
high cards
None of the above - draw five cards
A "gap" means that there is an inside card to a
straight that's needed in order to complete a straight.